1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 10:43 AM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1143 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2003 WL UPDATE ZNS TO ADD CHC SHWRS/TSTMS ACRS NRN HALF CWA FOR THIS AFTN IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHRTWV MOVG EWD THRU OH. FURTHER SOUTH INVOF FRONT...WL KEEP SCT SHWRS/TSTMS NRN WV...AND LKLY POPS WV/MD MTN ZNS. APCHG SHRTWV SHUD BRING ENOUGH CLD CVR WITH IT TO HOLD TEMPS DOWN DURG AFTN. WL ADJUST MAXS DOWN A NOTCH. NO CHGS TO LTR PDS. FCSTID = 14 .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE.
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-281115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 515 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY TODAY.
MDZ001-WVZ023-041-281600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1052 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2003 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH THE AREA... AT 10:50 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INTO PRESTON AND TUCKER COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND BY 11:00 AM. LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING INCLUDE TUNNELTON...AMBLERSBURG AND PARSONS IN WEST VIRGINIA...AND OAKLAND IN MARYLAND. BE ALERT IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THIS AREA AS THERE MAY BE PONDING OF WATER AND REDUCED VISIBILITY ON U.S ROUTE 50 AND OTHER AREA ROADWAYS. IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM-RELATED DAMAGE OR HIGH WATER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL-FREE AT 1-877-633-6772. TYBURSKI
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
216 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2003
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0210 PM OAKLAND MD FLASH FLOODS
07/28/03 GARRETT WATER COVERING ROUTE 219
SOUTH OF OAKLAND AS
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Route 30 was still flooded between East Rochester and Hanoverton, from flooding that started a day earlier.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, July 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5369595.